December 6th

Hello Everyone, this is Zolani taking over for Kris on This Week in Videogame Blogging. Let’s get to it!

Big Box

Aevee Bee wrote two stellar pieces of writing on Destiny this week, one of them is a series of mini-reviews on the game’s flavour text, the other a longer piece on what makes Destiny curious and interesting as a massive budget title.

At Gamasutra, Richard Moss has a fascinating piece on Return of the Obra Dinn, Lucas Pope’s follow-up to his IGF-winning Papers, Please, and the context of the 1-bit grayscale style it uses. Daniel Muriel also writes on Papers, Please, exploring the game’s representation of the political frontier.

Meanwhile at PopMatters, G. Christopher Williams writes on Nina Freeman’s Cibele and The Videogame Confessional, and Jorge Albor reflects on how games represent personal experiences.

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